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FROM of old there are not lacking things that have
attained Oneness.
The sky attained Oneness and became clear;
The earth attained Oneness and became calm;
The spirits attained Oneness and became charged with
mystical powers;
The fountains attained Oneness and became full;
The ten thousand creatures attained Oneness and
became reproductive;
Barons and princes attained Oneness and became
sovereign rulers of the world.
All of them are what they are by virtue of Oneness.
If the sky were not clear, it would be likely to fall to
pieces;
If the earth were not calm, it would be likely to burst
into bits;
If the spirits were not charged with mystical powers,
they would be likely to cease from being;
If the fountains were not full, they would be likely to
dry up;
If the ten thousand creatures were not reproductive, they
would be likely to come to extinction;
If the barons and princes were not the sovereign rulers,
they would be likely to stumble and fall.
pieces;
If the earth were not calm, it would be likely to burst
into bits;
If the spirits were not charged with mystical powers,
they would be likely to cease from being;
If the fountains were not full, they would be likely to
dry up;
If the ten thousand creatures were not reproductive, they
would be likely to come to extinction;
If the barons and princes were not the sovereign rulers,
they would be likely to stumble and fall.
Truly, humility is the root from which greatness springs,
And the high must be built upon the foundation of the
low.
And the high must be built upon the foundation of the
low.
That is why barons and princes style themselves
"The Helpless One," "The Little One," and
"The Worthless One."
"The Helpless One," "The Little One," and
"The Worthless One."
Translated by John C. H. Wu
Interpretation Bill Bernsen
JING/CHI
JING/CHI
Attaining oneness
Goal in Tai Chi Chuan
Spirit (heaven) clear
Earth (gravity) calm
Man (self) Jing
Results = creative
All done by following
Spirit, earth and man
Tai Chi Chuan
Is all above
Plus love
Oneness
Is connecting
To the earth/China
Via gravity
Having
Spirit receive
Earth’s energy
Oneness
Is having
A connection
To the Masters of old
A conduit
For the spirit/gravity
Of China
The Master
Depends on
Students
For support
If the student is humble
He can support
The Master
Even take on
Some of the Masters’
Errands and errors
Being one
With the Masters
Makes me
What I am
To reach
The oneness
Two paths
Civil
Martial
I am following
The civil path
The martial path
At some point
I must adopt
Reach Tai Chi Chuan
The secret is to
Kow Tow
To the lineage
Listen
To know if
Students are
Kow Towing
To the Masters
To know all
Martial technique
Is impossible
Same as confronting
An opponent
With just the civil
Must have both
This is the yin/yang
Oneness
The ability to
Change with change
The secret
To the civil/martial
Is change with change
Putting it
All together
Reeling silk
Bow-to-bow
Non-stress
On joints
Is the path way
To oneness
In Slow Set
Look to
A Tai Chi Chuan
Demo
Not just for its form
But its energy
Jing/Chi
To attain
Oneness
The clavicle joints
Hip joints
Two gates
Open
To the flow
In both directions
Humility/virtue
Open
The clavicle/heart
Supported by
The hip joints
Open to
Legs /foundation
Earth /China
Lineage
Foundation sink
To earth
Become still
Immovable
Upper body
Becomes spirit like
Can change
With a thought
Waist is the "Tai Chi”
Without being visible
Daily practice
Is like my waist
Between still/foundation
Moving/Spirit
Changing
If I am lazy
In practice
Look for the answer
In my waist
Oneness
Is having
No intent
No self
Able to
Change with change
Attained oneness
With the earth/China
With heaven
Via the Masters
Oneness
Exists
Allows only a few
To join it
Being one
With Unity
Everyone
Has oneness
With earth/gravity
Few with heaven/spirit
Only the worthy
With lineage/China
Oneness
In finding
My center
To stay centered
Be receptive/humble
This state of mind
Is where the new ideas
Spring out
Oneness
Is being
Connected to
Masters of the art
Believe me
Just asked them
They hear
The worthy
The Master
Can guide me
To the oneness
If I am worthy
Oneness
Clear
Calm
Enlightened
Like a newly born rabbit
It is not good
To be known
Or heard
Thru out life
Remain newly born
Every day
Is a new day
Every practice
Is a new practice
Every year
Is a new year
Every idea
Is an epiphany
Do not
Stand out
Rather
Squat inward
A man
Is more than
The sum
Of his mistakes
Quiet!
When Slow Set
Merges
With the lineage
It will become
Full of spirit
It is not wise
To be known
Be an elusive artist
Creative gesture
Is oneness
Oneness
Of the body
Thru pushing
On the wall
Part of the oneness
Is rollback too
Oneness
Is connection
To the Masters’
Oneness
Gestures cannot
Be clear until
Achieved oneness
Merge spirit/gravity
Results in one chi
Spirit oneness
Is clear
Gravity oneness
Is calm
(Staying in balance)
Push hands
Truly humility
Is the root
Jing/Chi springs
Quiet please
Do not be
A ½ jug of water
Attain oneness
In gestures
They become
Clear
Calm
Creative
They will
Become reproductive
Do not
Boaster
The oneness
The lineage
Too much honor
Leads to
Too much intent
Leads to loss
Of balance
A fall
Once fallen
One with the earth/China
Merge with the earth/China
Use earth’s energy
To rise again
Heaven/Masters will guide
Upward
Taoism mentions
Returns
That is return
To being
An animal
An animal again
It is where
I belong
Once an animal again
Senses will be
More acute
Will survive
Tai Chi Chuan
I can hold
Myself up
Use objects
Material things
As a banister
Using other people
Something they will
Hold me up
Sometimes Pull
Me down
Do it on my own
Tai Chi Chuan will give
The balance
Be anchored
In a good gesture
A bad gesture
Is top heavy
Will fall
Biggest tree
Gets
The most wind
Everything
Can be looked at
Either Yin or Yang
Attack or retreat
Good or Bad
Up or down
Be a fulcrum
To differentiate
With just a thought
Change things
With mind
If I can change
My mind
I can change
My body
Oneness
Of body
When expressing
Mentally or physically
Disconnect
From the Masters
I will quit
Tai Chi Chuan
Negate fame
Perhaps
5th dimension
Is the oneness
Simple add oneness
To the 4th dimension
Master is wise
In not teaching
The Non-earnest
Do not be a half
Jug of water
Be full
On the back shelf
Dickinson’s poem
Fame is like a bee
It has a song
It has a sting
Ah, is has a wing
The pattern
Is the oneness
Concentration
Is staying
In the pattern
Heartfelt
Is the conduit
To the oneness
Oneness
Is one chi
From mind
To body
To earth
Heaven
To Man
To Earth
Spirit
To Man
To
Gravity
Attain oneness
With earth/China
Via gravity
Modesty is
The cause
Of prominence
Be reserved
Remain reticent
And apprehensive
Oneness
Is the merging
Of spirit/gravity
Don’t be a half bottle
Of the best wine
Push hands
Is oneness
With those
That I touch
So if they move
I move first
Feeling euphoric
Wrists is the oneness
Being connected
To nature via wrists
Head attained oneness
Became clear
Body attained oneness
Became peaceful
Gestures attained oneness
Became strong
Advancing attained oneness
Became hollow
Retreating attained oneness
Became full
Above during slow set
Became one Jing/Chi
Receive
Opponent’s force
To root myself
Don’t return it
Divert it
Tai Chi Chuan
Is passive
Don’t advertise
The worthy
Will come
Achieve integrity
Without being pleased
Oneness
With the art
Don’t mention
Worthy
See it
Oneness
Is being one
With the earth/China
And heaven/Masters
Like a tree
Depend on the roots
Humility
In the branches
The one
Jing/Chi
Is the oneness
Attain
The oneness
Mind
Becomes clear
Attain the oneness
Body
Becomes calm
Attain the oneness
Spirit
To mystical power
Hollow gesture
Attained oneness
Became full
Via
Kai He style
Oneness
Of heart (spirit)
Of body (gravity)
Of mind (oneness)
Oneness = one chi
One chi
Is not only body
Mind too
Oneness
With the Masters
Too much fame
Makes infamous
Merge
Heaven/earth
To attain
Oneness
Of creativity
All gestures
Are depend
On the foundation
Oneness
Central equilibrium
Fulcrum of force
Mind reaching
Foundation
Returning
With earth’s energy
Oneness
Thru alignment
With self
Masters
Universe
Tao
Don’t be
A half jug
Of water
Oneness
“One chi”
From the past
To present
To future
Searching
For oneness
By removing
Old blockages
Causing the dying
Of old self
Too much
Of anything
Is nothing
Of everything
Gestures
Depend on c.o.g.
Under them
Lifting with legs
Oneness
Is the entire body
Being used
In gestures/ thoughts
Waist
Is the middle
When open
Merges
Lower and upper
Hence the oneness
Heaven and earth
Met at the waist
Once realized
Legs (earth/gravity)
Can control gestures
Gestures (spirit/heaven)
Can control legs (earth/gravity)
Depend
On the earth
Humility
Open
To earth’s energy
Is the connection
Oneness
Is connecting
To Masters
Who are defined
As oneness
The oneness
Entire body/mind
Doing gestures
Oneness
The completed
Tai Chi Circle
Dragon’s Tail
Is oneness
With earth’s energy
Meekness
Is the origin
Of prominence
Connecting
To Masters
Is the oneness
What they know
I know
If gesture
Is not clear
No flow
If foundation
No calm
No balanced
If not connected
To Masters
No Tai Chi Chuan
If not worthy students
Art extinct
Spirit/gravity
Merge in me
Is the oneness
Bringing
Heaven to earth
Bringing
Masters home
Connection
To the Tai Chi Point
Is the oneness
Fame is like a bee
It has a song
It has a sting
It has a wing.
E. Dickinson 19th century poet.
Oneness
Is the connection
To the lineage
Will the blog
Make me shine
Hope not
Only those
Who are worthy
Will see/understand it
Go deeper
Into the art
Not higher
Into the ego
Oneness
Is merging
With that which
I am concentrating on
Master
Students/opponents
Art
Mind/head/heart
Is the oneness
Oneness
With universe now
Thanks to
Tai Chi Chuan
Vortex
Oneness
Is man between
Spirit and Gravity
Oneness = love
The teacher
Must be fertile
Oneness
Is connection
To the lineage
Oneness
Is the connection
To the Master
Who is the conduit
To the Tao
Be open
To receive
The oneness
Oneness
Sky attained oneness
Became clear
Mind Clear
Earth Clear
Body Clear
Spirit Clear
Clear mystic controls
Humility
Is the essence
From which
Greatness springs
High
Must be built
Upon the foundation
Of low
10 Trillion cells
Attain oneness
Thru slow set
Grow into applications
Oneness
Something beyond
Conscious movement
Interrupt energy
Spiritual insight
Mystical powers
To obtain
Oneness
Via Slow Set
Relax
Open
Stretch
Bend bones
If the body
Is not elastic
It would crumble
Part of body
That is blocked off
Because of poor form
The spirit
Is built
On the foundation
Of the body
The importance
Of Tai Chi Chuan
Is to open body up
So the energy
Can past thru
Like water
Thru a hose
Water reaches
Very far
How far?
It can evaporate
A Tai Chi Chuan gesture
Reaches far
How far?
It becomes spirited
Other martial arts
Just hit
With the hose
But the water never
Flows thru like
In Tai Chi Chuan
Sky =mind
Earth = body
Spirit = mind and body
As one
Fountains = chi
10,000 creatures = technique
Nature and animals = teachers
Oneness = connection
With Tao = Masters and nature
One with all
Master is one with all
This equals oneness
1 +1 = 1ness
I must become
An infant again
To connect
To the earth
By giving up
To gravity
Infants don’t resist
Their environment
Can change their body
And mind at will
Lineage
Realization of accord
It is always there
Only attention varies
The Master looks
Upon himself
As a straw dog
To the lineage
So should I
Actually
Unbent spring
Is the source
Which greatness
Springs
Oneness
Is becoming
A river
Tao is compared
To water
Compare
Tai Chi Chuan
To a streaming spring
Oneness
Unity
Is being
A novice
Loftiness
Is grounded
With gravity
Adult is based
On childhood
A child thinks
A lot about growing up
An adult thinks
A lot about his youth
Where is the balance
Perhaps it is in humility
Being hollow
Being an adult
Sometimes
A child
Other times
Achieved oneness
Become productive
Able to spring
Into new ideas
Being
In the oneness
Feel the future
In the present
Based
On the past
If Slow set
Gestures
Are not turned
Into application
They would be defunct
If I do not teach
Spread the art
It will
Become extinct
Teaching is
The oneness
When receiving
Taking in chi
Like a balloon
Takes in air
Tai Chi Chuan
Takes in chi
Expanding every cell
Repairs/aligns all
When opponent presses
Feels like a balloon
Returning whatever force
Newton’s 3rd
Reckon
All gestures
Of an opponent
Teacher depends
On the student
For support
Master
Is contingent
Upon teachers
For their art
Everyone has life
Ahead of them
Future = wisdom
Present = now
Past = foundation
The next gesture (future)
Tai Chi Chuan
Is focused
On the moment
Based on
Previous move
Is oneness
Wisdom
Is doing something
Over and over
Practicing
Until perfected
Ward off
Is being
Full of the oneness
Wisdom
Concentration
Foundation
If the Tai Chi
Gestures
Are not charged
With Jing/Chi
They cease to being
Tai Chi Chuan gestures
Students
Who do not
Sense the Masters
Presence
Guidance
Mystical powers are
Not studying
Tai Chi Chuan
Connection
To the Masters
Attain the oneness
Become reproductive
The 1000 reason
Not to come to class
All equal extinction
The one reason
To come
Is reproduction
No spontaneous
Applications
Until attain
The oneness
Only then become
Reproductive
If the hub
Of a wheel
Is empty
It can fulfill
Its purpose
Receive the axle
Of awareness
If a vase
Is empty
It can fulfill
Its purpose
By holding
Flourishing idea
A thing of beauty
It has attained
It purpose
If a room empty
It can receive people
Who will think
Of new things
To do with
The hub and vase
10,000 Tai Chi Chuan
Gestures
Allow their applications
Were it not
For student/teachers
The art would
Become extinct
The purpose
Of teaching
Is to find
More teachers
I already have
The oneness
Peel away
Outside shield
Humility
Is the root
Of push hands
Clear
Thought/form
Peaceful
Thought/form
Strong
Thought/form
Full
Thought/form
Whole
All aspects of life
Fertile
New ideas/feelings
Humility
Key to the above
Honored by the lineage
Through slow set
Tai Chi Chuan
Clarified
Have no hesitation
In the sequence
For the joints
To open
And stay open
Get better
By undoing
Lose by adding
Oneness
Is getting
New ideas
Constantly
Oneness
Is listening
Student
Attained
Tai Chi Chuan
Endure
Gestures
Must be from
The heart
For the heart
Is the hub
Of the body
Where the mind
And body is one
Find the heart
Find all that is in common
With the Masters
Oneness
One mind
With Masters
Tai Chi Chuan
Gestures
Become infinite
Gesture
Becomes one
When it is tranquil/steady
Moves
When spirit is added
Oneness of gesture
KD#1 to KD#27
To gesture
Must be humbly/
Strong enough
Open/aligned
To handle the flow of
Jing/Chi to gesture
KD#1
To earth = Oneness
With earth/gravity
Oneness
Via KD#1
Grounded
Oneness
Connect
Heaven/earth
Via Man
The above
Is the oneness
Humility
Relaxed body
Bringing forth
Jing/Chi
Oneness is
Using
E=MC2
E=MC2
=Jing/Chi
Oneness between
Heaven and earth
Spirit and gravity
Via Tai Chi Chuan
Oneness
Within
Focus point
The above
Is the oneness
Body connecting
Spirit and gravity
Oneness
With universe
Oneness
Of the body
Now that thorax/and pelvis
Are working correctly
Next Mystical powers
The oneness
Is spirit up
Gravity down
Fully open
One with
Any and all
Align oneness
Connecting
Spirit and gravity
Inside
A coil spring/bellows
Between
Oneness = bellows
Breathing
Inhale gather
Exhale explore
Oneness
Of circle
Including weapons/objects
Before
Weapons/push hands
Challenge is
Opponent
Under complete controls
Oneness
Is being connected
To the Masters
Receiving instructions
Oneness
Oneness is connecting
Spirit/gravity
Via Tai Chi Chuan
This is the fulcrum
In between
Masters and China
Worthy=oneness
Oneness
Is the connection
To the lineage
Turning to this one
Proves oneness
Oneness
Is Jing/Chi
Oneness
The universe is one
So merge with it
Via Tai Chi Chuan
Oneness
Is earth’s energy
Jing/Chi
Ego blocks it
Not wise to do
A great demo
It calls unworthy
Poor demo
Forces humility
Love = Oneness
Gestures obtained love
And became oneness
Masters
Will hide
My oneness
Oneness
Masters spirit
Pressing
Down on me
Like a coil spring
China
Is the foundation
Resulting
In Jing/Chi
Oneness = infinity
Unanimity
Is lineage
Attending
Practice
Confirmation
That I have
reached
reached
The oneness
Viewed as
Worthless/dull
Leads to inherent
Ward off
Oneness
Is a perfect
Sphere body
A micro
Planet
During
The journey
To Tai Chi Chuan
Others will not
See you
This way
The true art
Remains a secret
To the unworthy
Oneness
Is the fulcrum
The tai chi
Supreme ultimate
Tai Chi Wheel
Established
With the hub
Being the heart
Tai Chi oneness
Is listening/feeling
With entire being
Spiritually/physically
Oneness
A gift to
Grandmaster Tung Hu-ling
On his 100th year
Confirmation
On the right
Spirit Trek
Of discovery
Oneness
Obtained
Finger to toe
Masters to China
Past to future
Presently I go
Seeking oneness
Can lead to
Loneliness
Earth’s energy
Jing/Chi
To gesture
Is the oneness
And immortality
Oneness
Is found
On a fulcrum
Between yin and yang
Humbly
Learn from
Students
Clearness
Causes oneness
With the lineage
Yu Pei Shih
Calls oneness
Of spirit/gravity
Two most
Powerful things
On earth
Humility
Is the supreme
Sensitive
Reception
Oneness
The connection
Between
Spirit and gravity
Tai Chi fulcrum
Innate
In self
Must have
Oneness
With the arts
Lineage
To create
Yu Pei Shih
Is connecting
Spirit and gravity
Inside making
A coil spring
Jing/chi body
Kai He style
Is the oneness
Between
Micro and macro
Oneness
Is a fulcrum
State of mind
Tiger
Carrying
A cub
Epiphanies
Confirmation of
Oneness
With Lineage
Oneness
Confirmation
Of my journey
Mind leads
Center of gravity
C.O.G. leads
Body
Is the oneness
Oneness
Is a vortex
Epiphanies
Shows
An oneness
With the lineage
The Masters
Shines me
On the inside
I appear
Dull
On the outside
Being aware
Of life’s elevator
Spirit up
Gravity down
Open to all
Clapping
Hands to hips
Oneness
Oneness
Spirit and Gravity
Merge
In the heart
Centrifugal spirit
Rooted to
Centripetal gravity
Linking
Heaven to earth
Masters to China
Thru me
EMPYREAN
空域
Kōngyù
Oneness
Is the elastic
Connection
Between
Spirit/gravity
Spirit calls
Gravity which
Supports spirit
With a circular
Connection
“Pi”
Yu Pei Shih
Is oneness
With sun/spirit
Earth/gravity
Masters/China
Oneness
Dark Energy/Dark Matter
Spirit/Gravity
Heaven/Earth
Masters/China
Me & New
Be hollow
Of honor
To be honored
Not too much
Too soon
Or too late
Oneness
Is Tai Chi
Clearness
Combining
Yin and Yang
Is Oneness
The secret
Tai Chi
Fulcrum
Oneness
With
Lineage
today
Oneness
Is the placement
Of the body’s
Fulcrum
It weights
All
Spiritual/physical
Gravity/China
Supports
Spirit/Master/Gestures
In turn
Controls
Gravity/China/Jing-Chi
Oneness
Is elastic
So, it can
Change with change
Song-Kai
Loose/open
To attain
Oneness
In gestures
Oneness
Via camaraderie
Of body/mind
Spirit/gravity
Master/China
Oneness
Is a Tai Chi
Fulcrum
Keeping
Previous and impending
In the present
Oneness is
Yu Pei Shih (alert)
Merging
Spirit/gravity
To agreement
Lever action
Is a secret
To Tai Chi Chuan
Tai Chi gestures
Depend on
Spirited
Center of Gravity
Humbly accept
Being subservient
To the lineage
It supports
The art
Secret
To oneness
Oneness
Via heart
To gesture
Advancing
Gesture to
Heart
Retreating
A mystical
Oneness when
Tai Chi Chuan
Gesture
Imitates
An animal
Oneness
Via heartfelt
Tai Chi gestures
Tree
Leaf to root
Oneness
Tai chi Chuan
Gesture to China
Oneness
Obtain oneness
Via Slow Set
Clarifying gestures
Clearing conduit
Between
Spirit and gravity
Spirited
Heartfelt
Gestures
Lacking gravity
Float to fault
Spirit/gravity
Equal as is
Top/ bottom
Of a bow
Oneness
Achieved
After
Gesture/string
Connected
Slow Set
To attain
Oneness
Head to toe
Kowtow
Then string
Body/bow
Henceforth
Gestures
Will be clear/calm
In control
Master’s oneness
Spirit to gravity
Tree’s oneness
Leaf to root
Student
Be a tree
Tai Chi Chuan
An intercourse
Between
Spirit/gravity
Master/student
Student/partner
Archery
Oneness with
Bow/string/arrow
Tai Chi Chuan
Oneness with
Body/sinews/gesture
Target
Be at one
With the moment
A loyal
Endeavor
Merge with
Lineage
To attain
Oneness in
Slow Set
Tai Chi Chuan
Practice
Merges
Spirit/gravity
Into heartfelt
Oneness
Slow Set
Merging
Spirit/gravity
Obtaining
Oneness
With all
Spirited gestures
Not supported
By gravity
Lack oneness of
Purpose in
Application
Slow Set
If 10.000 gestures
Did not become
Applications
Via practice
Tai Chi Chuan
Would become
Extinct
Tai Chi gesture
Depends more than
Bones, muscles, sinews
To make
An application
Fame can be
Fatal
Brilliance
Can be blinding
For self defense
Humbly
Isolate to
Understand
Gesture
Obtains
Oneness
Once spirit
Is supported
By gravity
Tai Chi Chuan
Attain oneness
Via heartfelt
Gestures
Push Hands
To reach
Oneness
Applications
Should be
Anonymous
Slow Set
Wringing
Torso/pelvis
Makes for
Oneness of
Gesture
Slow Set
Seek
Oneness
Spirit/gravity
A secret sinew
The spine
Slow Set
Is more then
The sum of its
Gestures it is
Creating
Applications
Completing
Oneness of a
Chinese Treasure